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Wow, time is going by at lightening speed. I feel like I was just at Alt Design Summit in San Fran and now it’s already time for Toronto’s BlogPodium this coming Saturday. I’m really looking forward to meeting local bloggers and experts. One of my goals is to do more collaborations in the future so it will be great to build relationships and make contacts that can grow beyond the conference. But on to the important stuff. What will I bring? And also what will I wear, but I haven’t quite tackled that one yet. There’s nothing worse than being unprepared at a conference and you also don’t want to overpack and have to carry around a huge bag all day. Here’s everything I think you need to be ready for your day at BlogPodium. (and don’t forget your business cards!)

A week ago today I took off to San Francisco to attend my first Alt Design summit. It’s the first time that Alt has come to the city. The main conference takes place in January in Salt Lake City over three days. I had heard about Alt and knew that some day I would make it there and make this blogging thing a reality. I was super excited to surround myself by like-minded people and get inspired and educated on what I need to know to make my blog everything I want it to be. And it didn’t disappoint.

This is going to be a long post but hopefully you find it interesting. Or maybe you just want to fast forward to the photos…that’s ok too.

It was great to be inspired but I found all the business advice the most useful. I think everyone in the room was a creative person or we wouldn’t be there but we could use a little help figuring out how to make a living from our creativity. I especially enjoyed the round table discussion on selling your own ads by Liz Stanley of Say Yes to Hoboken.

Amazing swag from all the wonderful sponsors. Oh and my shoes will hopefully make it into a video by Creative Bug.

I could probably do a whole entire post on the amazing food we were served. Seriously – it was incredible, gourmet, delicious and all complementary. Oh and there usually was a cocktail bar around too which never hurts.

We had lunch at the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel which was quite the space. We were all transported to a tropical destination in the middle of the conference. How fun does this look?

Super excited to check out the Pinterest head office for our closing cocktail party. The theme was Alice in Pinterland. More swag and more fun. A great way to end the event.

Just a handful of the wonderful bloggers I met. We are slowly falling down the rabbit hole.

And that’s it! Well to be honest it’s not it but it’s the best editing job I could do with so much packed into 24 hours. After this great experience I’m hoping to get a ticket for the big AltSLC(fingers crossed). Time to make things happen!

* please note, all photos, with the exception of the two noted by Brooke Dennis for Atly are original. Please link with love.